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R. C. GIBBS AND J. ATKINSON.

EAR RING.

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EAR-RING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 16, 1919.

Original application filed November 30, 1918, Serial N 0. 264,876. Divided and this application filed April 28,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT C. GIBBs and JosErH ATKINSON, both citizens of the United States, residing, respectively, at East Providence and Cranston, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ear-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

This application is a division of our pending patent application Serial No. 264,876, filed, Nov. 30, 1918.

Our invention relates to earring bodies of crescent shaped type.

It has been attempted to unite by solder two crescent shaped shells to form an earring body. This produced outer and inner peripheral seams requiring replating to temporarily obscure. Such plating was discolored by the soldering flame and by percolation of finishing solutions through the seams. Furthermore the ends of the body were left unclosed, so that the objectionable solutions were admitted therethrough.

The essential objects of our invention are to overcome the above enumerated disadvantages and to attain the desired results in an inexpensive and easily fabricated structure.

To the above ends essentially the invention consists in such parts and in such combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the preliminarily assembled parts of the new body,

Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same after swaging,

Fig. 3, a side elevation after trimming,

Fig. 4, a sideelevation partly in broken longitudinal section, of the same after the bending operation and the insertion of the rod,

Fig. 5, a like elevation after shortening the rod, and

Fig. 6, a side elevation of the completed body with an ear wire attached.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

Serial No. 293,086.

In the construction illustrated a body or rod 8 has loose thereon a tube 10, with ends projecting as shown in Fig. 1. The opposite ends of the parts are successively compressed or reduced in a reducing machine of common construction. This operation swages the tube or shell at and adj acent its end portions, as at 12 into tight engagement with the rod, contemporaneously elongating and tapering the tube toward its ends. The pro ecting ends of the rod 8 are now severed, and the member appears as shown in Fig. 3.

The described structure is next bent on an arbor or otherwise into crescent shape, as shown in Fig. 4. The body of the rod is now complete.

Any usual ear attaching member may be applied to the described body in any preferred manner. In the present instance such mounting is performed by drilling the ends of the rod 8 to produce cavities 13 and 14 in the body. The position, location, and shape of cavities in either the rod ortube are immaterial so long as the tube near its ends be in light contact with the rod, as at 16. This contact prevents the liquids or acids in which the body is subsequently immersed from access within the body. In this instance there are in the body perforations 18 to receive the pintle or pivot pin 19 of the ear wire 20 adapted to enter the cavity 14.

It will be noted that the resultant body is seamless. It will be understood that if preferred, or if various cross sectional shapes of body are described, the member, after receiving the-form shown in Fig. 4, is com- -pressed in dies of corresponding cross sectional contour.

We claim 1. In an ornamental earring body, the combination of a central rod, and a longitudinally curved. inclosing casing remote at its intermediate portion from the rod and tightly embracing at its ends the inclosed rod.

2. In an ornamental earring body, the combination of a rod, and a seamless tube inclosing the rod, comprising an intermediate portion spaced from the rod, and tapering portions tightly engaging the ends of the rod, the Whole being in the form of an incomplete annulus.

3. In an ornamental earring body, the

combination of a central rod, and a longi- 5 tudinally curved casing inclosing the rod comprising a double tapered intermediate portion and end portions tightly embracing the ends of the rod and extending beyond said rod forming cavities in the ends of the tube. 10

In testimony whereof We have afiixed our signatures.

ROBERT C. GIBBS. JOSEPH ATKINSON. 

